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Okay, so there's a fucking ton of Bias being a total dipshit re: Trump's piss scandal and spouting off "I WAS THERE!" because he's well beyond balls deep into 4chan and seems to be getting off on the whole "The CIA got trolled!" angle, but that's not what I'm focusing on with this entry into Discord moments. What I wanna focus on is this gem.

It veers off from there into Bias attempting to Banepost which, if you don't know what that is, click here. Others didn't get it, he got unmodded and.... yeah, that got a good response.

BTW, just wanna make note of something y'all probably didn't catch and I kind of hate myself for knowing off-hand (The irony is far from lost on me that I'm calling Bias balls deep in 4chan when I also know enough of this shit to be able to point it out), but this triple parentheses thing Bias does here...
...well...

(((Echo))) is a symbol used by anti-Semitic members of the alt-right to identify certain individuals as Jewish by surrounding their names with three parentheses on each side. The symbol became a subject of online discussions and media scrutiny in June 2016 after Google removed a browser extension that automatically highlights Jewish surnames in the style.

So make what you will of that. The conversation goes on to call out Bias for being legit racist in reference to the Aboriginals thing mentioned by Handy in the first screencap of this post alongside all the Trump support. Also thanks for the nice shoutout @handsome_devil.

That sure was an exhausting pile of shit to read through. Thanks for suggesting I do so @Ryan. I know this is one of those things most of us got to see anyway in chat even if we weren't there for it when it happened, but some of it truly deserves to be preserved here.

Bias, if you read this, we know you're going through shit. You've made mention of it numerous times, but you have to understand that this is not the way to go about venting your frustrations. We've all had our moments of being really shitty as teenagers and I don't doubt that to some extent that's at least partially what this is. Something I hope you'll eventually grow out of, until then though, it's best if you try to actually learn a thing or two about certain topics rather than repeatedly dipping your dick into some of the shittiest places on the internet for info when you're clearly aware that it's concentrated bile. If you've got the brains to see that much, then at least try to make the tiniest bit of effort into researching stuff rather than blindly accepting the antics of an anonymous imageboard as 100% fact.

It's funny because one of the things I thought of when this was going down was, "Man I wish Shaun was here to make sense of all of this." I had zero clue about the echo thing and was merely baffled at the time, now it's extremely disturbing in hindsight. However, I'm not entirely sure if Bias even fully knew what he was doing. For all we know, he was just parroting something he found funny on 4chan without knowing the problematic undertones.

I do want to add on that Bias did come in later and apologized, outright admitting that he lashed out again as part of a manic-depressive episode. Still, this is not the first time that this exact sequence of events has occurred on both the board and Discord, and it's still unsettling that it seems to always revolve around his overreliance to trust 4Chan on a subject that barely even affects him. I'm not sure how many times I have to say, "This isn't a game to many Americans" already. Bias, please do educate yourself further in the future. Please stop reading that site and trusting them.

With that said, I also want to acknowledge that fact that Bias also came in and said he would be taking a break from both the chat and board, and it's probably welcome. Being a teenager is a very tough and uncertain time where many factors are out of your control. So for the ones that are, do so. Don't fall prey to the internet influencing you. If you need to detatch yourself, do so immediately. And on the (terrifying) matter of seeing part of yourself in Donald Trump, please don't take our derision for some sort of sign for resigning yourself to it. We all fuck up, we're human. But seek to be different than Trump, go for redemption, go for bettering yourself, go for being an actual good human being. Do not take his "rise to glory" as a sign of hope: he is not an underdog, he is a privileged entertainer who got in far too much over his own head on the manipulations and fear of other people. Be better than him. Please.

Now to end this post on a lighter note with some OSS-centric Discord moments:

First, this response to Rex Tillerson's conference yesterday...

While earlier OSS took a good hour in manufacturing a new Gene Siskel emoji, the results of which may be not for more squeamish readers...

i wasn't going to respond to either of these as a sign of respect and as i a point that i have taken their messages to heart
i will be breaking from discord, at least until ive had therapy and am feeling better about myself

id like to make it extremely clear that i had no idea about the anti-semitic undertones from my triple-parentheses posting. i thought it was a way of emphasising a point, and i am extremely sorry for using it the way i have been
you're correct, it is something i learnt from 4chan. i am too stupid to release that learning something off 4chan will come with consequences, no matter how innocent it may seem to those too dumb to realise.

@bias, you need to take care of you, and maybe stepping away from stuff like this would be a good first move. I say that as someone who was hugely emotionally invested in dumb internet arguments and popularity contests when I was younger, for the most part because I had very little social outlets otherwise. it was really, really emotionally unhealthy for me.

i understand what you're saying and i think i made a similar point in discord, after my meltdown

focusing on the board shouldn't be a priority. my real life relationships are what i need to pay attention to more. as much as it may seem flippant or smug, in the grand scheme of things you guys aren't the be all and end all for me. i love you guys and i love this board but i can't kill myself over wanting to be liked when i have other things to focus on

i think because of my views, however broken and skewed they may be, i should really post less on here and not go into discord. i had this realisation the other night, and it's clear that my way of thinking, either right now or forever, doesn't match the way of thinking the majority of the board has

i don't want to make you guys uncomfortable or angry or upset or annoyed, so ill use my own initiative and encouragement from you guys and take the break i need to take. maybe in my absence i can grow up and mature and come back better